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Successful Bleomycin Pleurodesis in a Patient With Prolonged Pleural Effusion After Extracardiac Fontan Procedure
Author(s) -
Tansel Turkan,
Sayin Omer A.,
Ugurlucan Murat,
Dayioglu Enver,
Onursal Ertan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00303.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pleurodesis , bleomycin , etiology , fontan procedure , surgery , malignant pleural effusion , pleural effusion , effusion , population , radiology , chemotherapy , heart disease , environmental health
Pleural effusions after modified Fontan operations are unpredictable and contribute significantly to the morbidity and prolonged hospitalization. Chemical pleurodesis is widely performed in adults for malignant pleural effusions, but has found less chance of usage for benign cases or the cases with unidentified etiology. Although it is a safe and easily performed procedure, the use of bleomycin for the treatment of pleural effusions in the pediatric age population has been rarely reported in the literature. In this manuscript, we present a case with prolonged pleural effusion after extracardiac Fontan operation, which was successfully treated with bleomycin pleurodesis.